Alternative Careers for Software Engineers

This role involves designing and implementing business process automation solutions for customers, likely using low-code/no-code tools and workflow platforms rather than custom software development. Day-to-day work focuses on understanding customer needs, configuring automation systems, and ensuring smooth implementation.

Technical support analyst responsible for troubleshooting payment gateway issues, investigating API errors, and helping clients resolve transaction problems. Requires understanding of fintech systems and ability to diagnose complex technical problems without writing code.

Support and educate clients on using a property management platform, answering questions across product usage, accounting, legal, and maintenance topics while creating educational resources. Requires cross-team coordination with legal, accounting, and construction experts.

Sales Development Representative role focused on initial prospect outreach and qualification for a property management SaaS solution. Day-to-day involves cold calling coproperty managers, understanding their pain points, and setting up qualified meetings for the closing team.

Act as a business-technical bridge in pharmaceutical medical information, analyzing processes, identifying automation opportunities, and driving digital transformation initiatives while interfacing between business and IT teams.

A programmatic advertising analyst role involving campaign operations, data analysis, financial tracking, and strategic development of programmatic media buying activities for a marketing agency. Requires analytical thinking and data interpretation rather than software development.

An alternance (apprenticeship) recruitment coordinator role managing the full hiring pipeline for an international e-commerce company, including candidate sourcing, interview coordination, and stakeholder management with hiring managers across multiple countries.

Enterprise sales role focused on closing large deals with Fortune 1000 companies by understanding their technical and business needs, positioning Contentful's platform, and negotiating contracts. Day-to-day involves account research, executive conversations, solution design collaboration, and closing deals.

Lead and unify two engineering organizations into one cohesive team, manage the London engineering hub, and partner with commercial and product leadership on strategic initiatives—primarily focused on people management, organizational alignment, and cross-functional collaboration rather than hands-on coding.

Lead and mentor a Java engineering team at a scale-up, focusing on team development, strategic planning, and cross-functional collaboration rather than hands-on coding. Responsibilities include hiring, performance management, technical direction-setting, and aligning engineering work with business goals.

Support finance systems by managing, analyzing, and organizing financial data within THG's ecommerce operations. Work with data sets, reports, and systems to provide insights to finance teams rather than building software.

A Senior Analyst role focused on beauty subscription business metrics, likely involving data analysis, reporting, and insights to drive business decisions for THG's subscription products.

A commercial analyst role focused on beauty business metrics, pricing strategy, and market insights. Leverages data analysis and business acumen rather than software development, making it accessible to engineers transitioning into analytics-driven commercial strategy.

A Senior Analyst role focused on customer insights and analytics within THG's beauty division. Likely involves data analysis, reporting, customer behavior insights, and business intelligence to drive strategic decisions—leveraging analytical and problem-solving skills without requiring software development.

Senior project manager overseeing large-scale international renewable energy projects (solar and battery storage systems), managing feasibility studies, technical specifications, budgeting, and stakeholder coordination with financial institutions and private clients.

Assistant product manager for a poker gaming platform, responsible for defining and executing the poker offering roadmap, designing game mechanics and player experiences, and coordinating cross-functional launches of promotional operations and tournaments.

Manage the delivery and implementation of an estates management platform (Micad FM) for UK customers, coordinating technical deployments, client onboarding, and ensuring successful adoption of the CAFM software across multiple sites.

Senior network and security engineer responsible for designing, deploying, and maintaining client infrastructure solutions, with significant client-facing consulting, project management, and technical support responsibilities.

L3 support engineer specializing in Palo Alto Networks security infrastructure, diagnosing and resolving complex network/security incidents for clients, with responsibilities including troubleshooting, documentation, testing, and continuous learning on new technologies.

Work directly with engineering customers across aerospace, automotive, and manufacturing to translate AI simulation models into practical tools they can use. This involves understanding their domain problems, customizing solutions, and ensuring adoption rather than building core models.